Quotes about Importance
Only in eternity can we rightly estimate the loss of a single soul.
- Ellen White
That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.
- Elton John
It was a reminder that you only get so long, that you never know what's around the corner. Maybe that gave me some real clarity about what was important to me about life. Why try and deny how you really feel, deep down, about something as fundamental as fatherhood?
- Elton John
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
- George W. Bush
if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
- George Washington
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.
- Henry B. Eyring
As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
- Stephen Covey
A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.
- Rick Warren
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
- Kathleen Norris
It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM—an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.
- Mark Twain
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.